apathetic -> democrat -> liberal with libertarian sentiments -> liberal who realized libertarianism is naive and untested -> liberal who thought the democratic party was the lesser of two evils -> disillusioned liberal/apathetic

one of my pet peeves: people that say "i personally" or "i myself." you already said "i", there's no reason to reinforce the fact that it's you. filler words that detract from otherwise valid points. you'll notice this most often with public speakers, which is the sign of a poor public speaker.

edit: this isn't to insult you, just a pet peeve of mine. 99% of people don't even think about it when they do it because that's how we're taught growing up.

one of my pet peeves: people that say "i personally" or "i myself." you already said "i", there's no reason to reinforce the fact that it's you. filler words that detract from otherwise valid points. you'll notice this most often with public speakers, which is the sign of a poor public speaker.

edit: this isn't to insult you, just a pet peeve of mine. 99% of people don't even think about it when they do it because that's how we're taught growing up.

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I will continue to do it myself because Americans they suck at English.

i ain't read one post but my moral views lean to the liberal side even though i consider myself a christian

my "business/money-related" views are kind of mixed. i think we should have tax cuts across the board and i do think its unfair that rich people get a higher percent of their income taxed. on the flipside, i do agree w/ gov. programs to help poor and homeless people though. i know conservatives ain't really with that.

however, my family probably benefited like a muhfucka from government (food stamps, etc.) when i was a kid cuz my mom worked very little for like the first 5-6 years of my life and concentrated on raising my two brothers and me.

my pops made decent money but we always stayed in townhomes or apartments til i turned like 15.

Representative democracy fails because it starts off with the agriculturalist/K-select/low-time preference mentality but devolves into the hunter-gatherer/tribalist collectivist/high-time preference mentality.

What you have in America is basically competing groups engaged in a permanent state of proxy warfare where the strong-arm of government is used to steal resources from the productive castes.

The freebie society encourages the irresponsible breeding habits of lower castes that would otherwise be fucked without the extracted wealth of a shrinking productive caste.

Civilization itself is dysgenic as it dulls the edges of natural selection, but democracy sends this into hyperdrive.

I'd also add that people sometimes seem to think democracy is the same thing as liberty, when democracy is just one facet of it and not even a necessary one. It could be argued that democracy leads to the kind of appeal-to-the-lowest-common-denominator, slogan driven politics that we've got now.